Someone once called me a geek. At the time I was quite upset, now I'm proud. This is a public access into my thoughts.

2009-07-15

Some useful keyboard commands on the Mac

One thing that irritates me is when I can't find the right keyboard combinations for my favorite commands. I can tell you right away that the copy, paste, regret, mark all, save and other simple commands are a real pain on the Mac when comming from a PC. I'm used to the ctrl button on the end of the keyboard and then Z for regretting the latest command. On the Mac most of these commands still work but now in combination with the cmd button, placed next to the SPACE-bar. This makes the combination very hard to make using my left little finger, since I'm used to the ctrl-button. I've had my Mac a couple of days now and I have made this misstake a hundred times.

Before you hit me with "get used to it" I know this i just something I have to learn. But I still think it's annoying.

Anyway some other useful keyboard commands are these:

END

cmd + right arrow

HOME

cmd + left arrow

END OF PAGE

cmd + up arrow

BOTTOM OF PAGE

cmd + down arrow

PAGE UP

ctrl + up arrow

PAGE DOWN

ctrl + down arrow

DELETE

fn + BACKSPACE

STEP ONE WORD RIGHT

alt + right arrow

STEP ONE WORD LEFT

alt + left arrow

BACKSLASH \

shift + alt + 7

PIPE |

alt + 7

[

alt + 8

]

alt + 9

{

shift + alt + 8

}

shift + alt + 9

$

alt + 4

@

alt + 2 (pretty obvious)

TILDE ~

fn + alt + ¨ (the key left of ENTER)

Commands on a Virtual PC or Remote Desktop PC

END

fn + right arrow

HOME

fn + left arrow

END OF PAGE

?

BOTTOM OF PAGE

?

PAGE UP

fn + up arrow

PAGE DOWN

fn + down arrow

DELETE

fn + BACKSPACE

STEP ONE WORD RIGHT

ctrl + right arrow

STEP ONE WORD LEFT

ctrl + left arrow

BACKSLASH \

ctrl + alt + + (the key right of zero)

PIPE |

right alt + < (vmware)

[

ctrl + alt + 8

]

ctrl + alt + 9

{

ctrl + alt + 8

}

ctrl + alt + 9

$

ctrl + alt + 4

@

ctrl + alt + 2

TILDE ~

ctrl + alt + ¨ (the key left of ENTER)

I'll probably update this post acouple of times with other useful commands, so please check back. I know I'll check back every now and then before I've leart all this stuff.